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muriel_volestrangler

(104,407 posts)
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 05:55 PM Aug 4

Trump threatens India with 'substantial' tariff hike for buying Russian oil

Source: BBC

Donald Trump has threatened to "substantially" raise tariffs against India over its purchase of oil from Russia. "They [India] don't care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine," the US president wrote on his online platform, Truth Social, on Monday.

India is currently among the largest buyers of Russian oil. It has become an important export market for Moscow after several European countries cut trade when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Trump did not specify what the new tariff would be, but it comes just days after he unveiled a hefty 25% levy on India.

Delhi called Trump's warning "unjustified and unreasonable". In a statement, a spokesman for India's foreign ministry, Randhir Jaiswal, said the US had encouraged India to import Russian gas at the start of the conflict, "for strengthening global energy markets stability".

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly647wx9l3o

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Celerity

(51,596 posts)
10. Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary under Biden, said in November 2022 (the Russian invasion started in February 2022)
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:59 PM
Aug 7

that the United States was “happy” for India to continue buying as much Russian oil as it wanted.

Geoffrey Pyatt, the Assistant Secretary of State under Biden, said in February 2024: “India has played a key role in efforts to stabilise global energy markets through its purchases of Russian crude.”

Also, the US continues to import Russian uranium hexafluoride for its nuclear industry, palladium for its electric car industry, and various fertilisers and chemicals.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,392 posts)
6. 'Gentlemen, when yas buy
Mon Aug 4, 2025, 09:49 PM
Aug 4

from my competitors insteada from me, it hoits my feelins. And when my feelins get hoit, it makes me wanna... ya know, teach yas a lesson."

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